Creative Writing

Course Overview: Creative Writing is a semester long course that explores different genres of writing, through both reading and writing, as well as the other necessary elements needed to improve writing and composition skills. This course is designed with the goal of inspiring students to develop original pieces and ideas. The students will finish the class with a portfolio of their best work from the semester.

Semester Outline:

Unit 1: Writing Review

Unit 2: Short Stories and Peer Review

Unit 3: Poetry

Unit 4: Choose Your Own Adventure

Unit 5: Art and Storytelling

Semester Performance Tasks:

  • Narrative Story

  • Positive Peer Editing(Positive and Constructive Feedback)

  • 5 poems with different style/structure

  • A choose your own adventure story

  • An original world map and connected story

  • A complete portfolio with 10 original pieces of work